Authorities have identified the skeletal remains found Friday night near a Washington Township apartment complex as those of a resident reported missing last year.

Michael R. Miller, 62, who was reported missing Nov. 12 from his Washington Way apartment, was identified by jewelry and medical records, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office.

The grim discovery was made around 9:45 p.m. Friday by a person passing through a heavily wooded area behind the Barnsboro Road apartment complex.

The results of an autopsy by the county medical examiner's office are pending.

The prosecutor's office said apartment complex's property manager report Miller missing under what law enforcement officials considered "unusual circumstances" after he had not been seen or heard from in about two months and became behind on rent.

Authorities said Miller's cellphone had been left in his apartment and his car was parked outside.

Miller lived alone as of September 2012 and previously shared his apartment with a son and a friend of the son, the prosecutor's office said.

Washington Township police and the prosecutor's office are investigating.